Road Runner Adventure Run sponsored by Ragnar Relay

Have you ever done an Adventure Run at Road Runner Sports? This past year I’ve had the opportunity to volunteer helping out at many runs but realized that I had never actually participated in one myself. When I was invited to this special Adventure Run for Ragnar Washington DC participants, I knew the time had come to check it out for myself.

This event was a kick off for the Ragnar DC race (September 12th). All registered runners and teams were invited to participate. My team, “Moms Do It All Night Long”, is made up of 12 moms from my MRTT group. It is the first Ragnar race for all of us. 8 of the 12 members of our team were able to attend Thursday night. We are saving our “real” team tees for the race so donned our matching MRTT shirts and headed over to the event.

There were numerous sponsors on hand to offer samples and test products.

-Cliff Bars (shots, bars and gels)

-Tom Tom (offering test “runs” with their GPS watch

-Bondi Bands

-Krave beef jerkey

-Ragnar

and many more

. (courtesy of Road Runner)

Right on schedule we were ushered outside where a large board is revealed to display the map for tonight’s run. You can also access the map on your phone.

Usually between 8-10 checkpoints are listed on the map. You are encouraged to run to as many checkpoint as possible within the hour time frame to collect as many raffle tickets as possible. It is important to strategize so that you are not running around in circles and can hit as many sites as possible.

Off we went! We made it to Core Power Yoga where we demonstrated tree pose and dancer to earn our tickets

Did the raw egg challenge and racked up some more raffle chances-no breaks!

this is why I never played sports as a kid

We hit a few more stops before heading back to the store for the amazing raffles they had planned

We all won a ton of prizes from shoes, to beef jerky, head lamps, safety gear, edible arrangements, etc. I also won a free month’s membership to Title Boxing-score! I love kickboxing.

I won all of this great stuff!

my team mate with her new sweatshirt

We also won one of the team prizes-2 bags full of great gear that we need for the race. Thank you Ragnar & Road Runner. We cleaned up for sure Thursday night. Not pictured here but Road Runner has free beer after their runs as well.

Our team captain with the winnings

This was a great time and a great way to get psyched for our upcoming Ragnar race. Road Runner Sports has Adventure Runs at all of their locations so check your local store for times and dates. They are always a good time and always have tons of prizes. The runs are free but you get more raffle tickets if you pre-register online. Most of the runs are no more than 4 miles but you can run as much or as little as you wish. Our MRTT group always comes out to participate and many of us bring our kids as well. Looking forward to the next one!!

Meet Deborah

I'm a mom of 2 teenagers, wife and lover of all things running & fitness. As a life long vegetarian, I've always been passionate about healthy living & exercise. Looking for motivation last year, I started my own chapter of Moms Run This Town (MRTT) which has grown to over 200 members. I've met so many amazing women who inspire me daily to keep moving forward.
I am currently the Race Ambassador for The Rock N Roll Marathon/Half Marathon in Washington, DC. I am fortunate to be a Girls on The Run Coach this season and can't wait to inspire a new generation of female runners.
My favorite race distances are 10k's and Half Marathons. I love to keep up to date on new running & fitness trends. I definitely choose my running gear based on color and love to express my fashion sense while exercising.

Wow! That looks like so much fun! I will have to Google that is see if we have something like that around hear somewhere but I’ve never heard of it! You all racked up on the FREE stuff- how fun!Mary Beth Jackson recently posted…A positive attitude and the countdown is on!

I have never done an adventure run, but I want to…looks like so much fun! As for Ragnar, I’m so jealous, I wish I was doing this one!! I bought that sweatshirt at Ragnar and it is my favorite thing to wear, it’s sooooo comfy and cozy and makes me feel like a badass when I wear it 😉Sue @ This Mama Runs for Cupcakes recently posted…Wonder Mom Wedesday Link up: Back to School

That looks like fun! And a great way to get pumped up for Ragnar. Have you done a Ragnar before? In theory, it sounds like fun, but I don’t know how I’d do on those middle of the night runs.Wendy@Taking the Long Way Home recently posted…Can’t we all just support each other….

Ooh… this sounds like so much fun! I had no idea Road Runner stores did adventure runs like this. We have one in Rockville so I’ll have to check out what they offer.Chaitali recently posted…Weekly review

Hi, I’m Deborah

I'm a mom of 2 teenagers, wife and lover of all things running & fitness. As a life long vegetarian, I've always been passionate about healthy living & exercise. Looking for motivation, I started my own chapter of Moms Run This Town (MRTT) which has grown to almost 600 members. Read More…

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